My Recently Visited Services

Wildcat Finder is a proprietary web application that provides multiple search options to identify individuals affiliated with the University in various capacities, including faculty, staff, students, contractors, and affiliates.


Northwestern provides lecture capture services for University schools, departments, and business units provide users with the ability to record and archive lecture videos for live or on-demand viewing from a web browser.


NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.


OnBase is a document management system with workflow capabilities. It allows users to take paper out of the file cabinet and store it as images on servers where the content can be accessed regardless of the user’s location.


NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.


Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.


Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.


NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.


iBuyNU is a web-based ordering tool integrated into NUFinancials. It provides departments and schools with a streamlined, cost effective way to order from University Preferred Vendors.


CAESAR is Northwestern’s system of record for student data. Students, faculty, advisers, parents, guardians, and staff use CAESAR to manage classes and grades, pay bills, view financial aid, process admissions, and maintain demographic data.


Northwestern provides three wireless networks to access the Internet. Each network is unique to University affiliation and device type.


Microsoft Project, is a project management service within the Microsoft 365 applications and add-ins that allows for the development of schedules, resource assignment, creation of tasks, tracking, budget management, workload review, and the sharing of this information with chosen stakeholders.


Copilot is Microsoft’s AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently.


SharePoint is an online content and document management tool available for students, faculty, and staff to create web sites and manage file libraries.


Qualtrics is an easy-to-use, web-based tool for creating and conducting full-featured online surveys.


The Business Intelligence (BI) System (also known as Cognos), provides Northwestern with accessible and comprehensive reporting and analytics solutions for University schools and business units.


The Graduate Student Progress (GSP) allows programs to track graduate student progress and view many elements of graduate student activity in one place.


OneDrive offers secure, cloud-based storage that lets you seamlessly collaborate and access files from anywhere in the world, at any time.


The Northwestern Research Portal is a one-stop-shop for researchers and their staff to obtain research administration information. The Portal displays data from multiple systems in a user-friendly way, allowing faculty members self-service access to drill into details of the project information they are most interested in.


CatConnect is Northwestern's web-based system of record for alumni and donor information. Its modules support school and central Alumni Relations and Development staff in prospect management, gift development, committee and volunteer management, alumni and donor relations, and alumni event tracking.


This service includes Northwestern Main Library Basement Classrooms B234, B238.


REDCap (Research Education Data Capture) is a web-based application that Feinberg uses for managing online surveys and databases.


Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a cloud-based digital marketing automation system that Alumni Relations and Development (ARD), and their campus partners, use to send out broadcast email communications to their constituents.